![]() ![]() Nelson's post-apocalyptic children's novel The Girl Who Owned a City, published in 1975, as an example of an invented utopia that the book's protagonists could try to emulate. Nevertheless, Minerva was referred to in O. Meanwhile, Provisional President Davis was fired by founder Michael Oliver and the project collapsed in confusion. ![]() Tonga’s claim was recognized by the South Pacific Forum in September 1972. On 15 June 1972, the following proclamation was published in a Tongan government gazette:Ī Tongan expedition was sent to enforce the claim. A conference of the neighboring countries ( Australia, New Zealand, Tonga, Fiji, ], Samoa, and territory of Cook Islands) met on 24 February 1972 at which Tonga made a claim over the Minerva Reefs and the rest of the states recognized its claim. The declaration of independence, however, was greeted with great suspicion by other countries in the area. Davis was elected as Provisional President of the Republic of Minerva. The Republic of Minerva issued a declaration of independence on 19 January 1972, in letters to neighboring countries and even created their own currency. In 1971, barges loaded with sand arrived from Australia, bringing the reef level above the water and allowing construction of a small tower and flag. Denham of the HMS Herald surveyed the reefs in 1854 and renamed them after the Australian whaler Minerva which collided with South Minerva Reef on 9 September 1829. It is not known when the reefs were first discovered but had been marked on charts as "Nicholson's Shoal" since the late 1820s. Landing on Minerva, years after the confrontation. The site chosen for the Republic was the Minerva Reefs in the Pacific Ocean. According to Glen Raphael, "The chief reason that the Minerva project failed was that the libertarians who were involved did not want to fight for their territory." According to Reason, Minerva has been "more or less reclaimed by the sea". They anticipated a libertarian Society with "no taxation, welfare, subsidies, or any form of economic interventionism." In addition to tourism and fishing, the economy of the new nation would include light industry and other commerce. Lithuanian-born Oliver formed a syndicate, the Ocean Life Research Foundation, which allegedly had some $100,000,000 for the project and had offices in New York and London. The architect was Las Vegas real estate millionaire and political activist Michael Oliver, who went on to other similar attempts in the following decade. The Republic of Minerva was one of the few modern attempts at creating a sovereign micronation on the reclaimed land of an artificial island in 1972. ![]()
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